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AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle supports management of diagnostic data with Oracle Automatic Diagnostic Repository Command Interpreter (ADRCI) utility
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports the management of diagnostic data with the Oracle Automatic Diagnostic Repository Command Interpreter (ADRCI) utility. If you have a support request, you can use the Amazon RDS package rdsadmin.rdsadmin_adrci_util to create the packages for specific incidents or problems to deliver them to Oracle Support. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Storage account failover is now generally available
Customer-initiated Storage account failover is now generally available, allowing you to determine when to initiate a failover instead of waiting for Microsoft to do so. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS DataSync can now transfer data to and from AWS Snowcone
AWS DataSync now supports transferring files to and from AWS Snowcone, the smallest member of the AWS Snow Family of edge computing and data transfer devices. Snowcone is portable, ruggedized, and secure – small and light enough to fit in a backpack, and able to withstand harsh environments. The DataSync agent comes pre-installed on the […]
AWS – AWS announces AWS Snowcone – a small, portable, rugged, and secure edge computing and data transfer device
AWS Snowcone is the smallest member of the AWS Snow Family of edge computing and data transfer devices. Snowcone is portable, rugged, and secure – small and light enough to fit in a backpack, and able to withstand harsh environments. Customers use Snowcone to deploy applications at the edge, and to collect data, process it […]
AWS – New on Coursera: Digital course on building Amazon DynamoDB-friendly apps
AWS Training and Certification has launched Amazon DynamoDB: Building NoSQL Database–Driven Applications, a self-paced, digital course now available on Coursera. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon API Gateway allows subprotocols on a WebSocket API connection
While building a WebSocket API with Amazon API Gateway, you can now send back Sec-WebSocket-Protocol field as part of the response from $connect route. This means clients can now request specific subprotocols while connecting to your WebSocket API. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Corretto for Alpine Linux now in preview
Amazon Corretto, a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK, is now in preview for Alpine Linux. Read More for the details.
GCP – Announcing API management for services that use Envoy
Among forward-looking software developers, Envoy has become ubiquitous as a high-performance pluggable proxy, providing improved networking and observability capability for increased services traffic. Built on the learnings of HAProxy and nginx, Envoy is now an official Cloud Native Computing Foundation project, and has many fans—including among users of our Apigee API management platform. To help […]
GCP – Setting up advanced network threat detection with Packet Mirroring
When you’re trying to detect—or thwart—an attack, the network can be a good line of defense: attackers could compromise a VM and you could lose access to endpoint data, but you likely still have access to network data. An effective threat detection strategy is to use network data, logs, and endpoint data to gain visibility […]
AWS – Introducing AWS CloudFormation Guard (Preview) – a new open-source CLI for infrastructure compliance
AWS CloudFormation announces the preview of AWS CloudFormation Guard (cfn-guard), an open-source command line interface (CLI) that helps enterprises keep their AWS infrastructure and application resources in compliance with their company policy guidelines. Cfn-guard provides compliance administrators with a simple, policy-as-code language to define rules that can check for both required and prohibited resource configurations. […]